The quote is by William Shakespear, and the card is made by Le Precious. Their cakes are really nice and cute!
"Thank you everyone for the gifts!" :):)I was playing with the hand puppets when I happened to re-create a familiar scenario to xuan--an "adult" carrying a baby. She stared for a loooonnggg time (the whole event took more than half an hour. I was surprised she stayed so focused on the piggies for long!) and then started calling piglet the hand puppet 小猪爸爸 and wanted to put piglet the doll to bed. She offered her 抱枕 to piglet and wanted me to take them to the bedroom to put piggies onto the pillows. "小猪睡觉，小猪sleeping/sleepy"
Then she started saying "chain, chain" (change), "chain shirt (change shirt)", "chain trousers (change trousers)", "chain bao1bao1 (change diapers)" and I realize she is serious about putting piglet to bed, complete with her whole usual routine of changing into her pajamas, so cute! I was very touched at how she tried to act as the care giver. She actually gave her seat to the piggies and she herself sit on the chair she usually make me sit on!
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She's starting to imitate us and play make believe, and some of her habits would have been established by now. I believe strongly in creating a condusive learning environment at home and 言教不如身教. Being a role model and living a healthy life style (walking your talk!) is actually the easist way to teach kids good habits without having to teach them.
She can actually sing the whole Chinese version, in rather clear enunciation too! Not so much for the English version cos she just goes "Tinkle tinkle titer TAAARRR, ow mnrrulnder... AARRR, up bove mmllddwwrr... AAAIIII, dimond in llrrddmwe... KAAAIIII, tinkle tinkle titer TAAARRR, nbkjkjl.... AAARRRRR". With much emphasis on the last word. Still a little incomprehensible at the moment. But I just love her sweet voice! :)
It's harder to capture moments of her now cos (1)I am busier with baby no. 2, (2)she moves very fast, (3) she will stop whatever she's doing and try to grab the camera.
Infants are a little boring cos they just sleep and wake up to feed, but they feed enough times to keep you far from bored. Little Colin is now awake for almost the entire morning, and in the afternoon he naps at most for 2 hours, which means that I'm almost back to the times where I can be home the whole day but accomplishes nothing except for changing his diapers, nursing him and cuddling him to sleep.
But since he's more alert now, I can start reading to him, and do stretching exercises for him (I wouldn't be doing like how I did in this clip cos I'd have both my hands). Stretching helps him develop his muscles cos he's bedriddren all the time, poor thing! Massaging or just stroking his arms and legs makes him feel secure cos the sense of touch is very important at this stage. It also keeps me at a visible range to him, since he can only see things up to abt 25cm away.
Xuan can drink from a cup now! :D I give credits to her child care for this new skill, but we have also been letting her drink from a cup long before she turned one. To make eating fun, I bought colouful plastic cups and bowls from Ikea, and colorful spoons that changes colour if heated up. My mom also bought her a kitchen set toy which she seem to enjoy so far. We also started toasting with her cos it makes drinking fun.
A friend once said she's impressed at how xuan goes "ahhhh" after drinking water and it makes water seem so tasty! I started doing that with her every time she drinks plain water so that she doesn't reject it. She seem to stop doing that recently though. Moving on to new stuff now :)
